Fr. Malachi Martin again

A couple people on this board mentioned that noted author Fr. Malachi Martin, now deceased, had been involved in various sexual escapades; one woman accused him of having seduced her.

I don't know if she or anyone else is reading this, but I wonder, when is Fr. Martin alleged to have done such things? Are we talking about years ago, something of which he may have repented long ago? Or are we talking about more recent events?

I met Fr. Martin in Manhattan around 1998, had lunch with him in a little French cafe, and found him to be most zealous for the Catholic faith. He encouraged my faith greatly. He also told me some things about a priest in my diocese (later shown to be true) that I can't imagine him knowing apart from either angelic visitations or some sort of huge spy ring. He had incredible knowledge. He also told me he was celibate in spite of rumors to the contrary, and I believed him.

Naturally, he also made claims about a Luciferian desecration of St. Peter's that were troubling.

I just wonder, does anyone else know about this man, whether he was "for real" or not? And, if he may have sinned in his life, whether that was decades ago (and long-repented) or more recent?

Answers

The first and most dogged accusation was made against him during the
Vatican Council in 1963. Martin, as assistant to Cardinal Bea, was
a source on the proceedings for the Time magazine correspondent and
fellow (though non-priest) Jesuit Robert Kaiser. As a source,
Martin and other well known Catholic priests and bishops spent alot
of time at the Kaiser residence in Rome during the Council
proceedings. Prelates were in and out of the residence on a regular
basis. There were weekly social gatherings and parties. Prelates
spent the night there. Kaiser wrote a book about the Council and
was working and travelling alot to promote it when he began to
believe that Martin was having an affair with his pregnant wife.
Kaiser returned from his travels, made the accusation and started
drinking heavily and behaving erratically. His wife and friends,
concerned over his behavior, urged him to get medical help. He went
to the hospital and doctors felt that he was paranoid, perhaps from
exhaustion due to his work schedule. Kaiser and his wife
eventually had their marriage annulled and she married someone
else. Kaiser continues to blame Martin for ruining his marriage
and wrote a book about it.

The second rumor is that Martin was shacked up with a woman for 30
years. Indeed, his obituary in the New York Times made mention of
it. His friend, a Father Fiore, wrote the Tims to correct
the "slanderous connotation," as he called it. He said, "(i)t was
to the Manhattan home of Mrs. Kakia Livanos and her family, whom I
know, that he moved. Mrs. Livanos was not his "companion" with that
word's pejorative meaning, but his landlady who provided his rooms,
his meals, and the oratory where he said daily Mass."

The claims are presented in a novelistic way in Fr. Martin's
book, "Windswept House" that you can read on your own. But he
claimed this really happened, and that during exorcisms in which he
had been present, demons actually boasted that they "owned" St.
Peter's now. The claim is that, around 1962 or so, some bishops who
were secret Luciferians had a black Mass in St. Peter's, dedicating
it to Lucifer. It was his way of explaining the chaos that broke out
in the Catholic Church since that time, though it smacks of rejecting
Vatican II, which I think Fr. Martin didn't really care for. In this
way, he was a "cafeteria Catholic" but on the traditionalist end. It
is interesting, though, how so many things seemed to unravel in the
West after the early '60s. This is actually one reason why I raise
the question of whether Fr. Martin was "for real" or not, though it
ought to be said that even a Luciferian desecration cannot overrule
the promise of Christ to Peter, "On this Rock I will build my Church,
and the gates of Hades will never hold out against it."

Out of fairness to Fr. Martin (may God bless his soul), I should add
that he did consider himself a faithful Roman Catholic, and professed
loyalty to the Pope and to Canon Law. What I meant by "cafeteria
Catholic" is that he felt free to dismiss various items in Vatican II
because it was not a "dogmatic" council. Neverthleless, he did admit
that Novo Ordo could be a valid Mass, if done according to the
rubrics and the Latin text, etc. On the other hand, he thought that
many priests today had been ordained questionably, many Masses were
not valid, etc. He was an unusual man, one hard to pin down, though
he seemed sincere to me.

you see, the thing is that a luciferian black mass devoting the
vatican to satan is worthless. it only bears meaning to those who
might have attempted it and revel in the fact that they percieve
some satanic overlording now. the truth of the matter is that a
hundred thousand black masses could be said in the vatican and it
would do nothing to change the fact that this world and this vatican
is owned by God and God alone, with no chance for satan to make any
real claim that he has ownership of the vatican. thus satan seeks
to promulgate the myth of his possession of the church in order to
falsely disperse its members.

Although I never met Malachi Martin I read his book 'Hostage to the
devil' and was fascinated. Later on I began to doubt his sincerety.
Questions like what is perfect possession. Does it really exist. Does
the bible give any creedence to it. Then there were his frequent
appearances at Art Bell's radio show. When he stated that methods
used by shamans seemed to be just as effective to free the possessed
of evil spirits as a roman-catholic exorcism and that there were
actually two satans, something told me that total acceptance of his
writings as the only truth, was a bit precocious. If we consider
these facts how then can we be sure that books like 'Windswept House'
are recordings of actual events. One should do well to reconsider.

well, hildebrand, im not sure that you actually were hearing malachi
martin on the radio, since in hostage to the devil malachi makes
clear that there is ONE satan with MANY DEMONS and that the catholic
excorcist rite is the ONLY form of excorcism with any documented
success. seems thats a HUGE turnaround, especially because i have
the updated version of Hostage to the Devil which has a foreword
written not long ago which seems to reiterate that malachi martin
continues to believe what i already iterated above.

I have been reading Father Martin's books since the early eighties,
and am greatly indebted to him for wising me up about certain wolves
in sheeps'clothing that have infiltrated the Church with the
intention of destroying her from within. Thus, it was most
gratifying to discover that with regard to his status as a priest in
good standing with the Church, Father Martin has reportedly been
vindicated by a former Vicar General of the Society of Jesus, Father
Vincent O'Keefe, S.J.
I hope y'all are as happy as I was to read this article.
Happy New Year!